Fair Trade Judaica (FTJ)

Fair Trade Judaica promotes fair trade as a Jewish value through educating the Jewish community, and expanding the production, distribution, and sale of fair trade Judaica products. We envision a world in which Jewish consumers recognize fair trade as an expression of core Jewish values, seek out fair trade Judaica products, and use their purchasing power to support thriving communities of artisans around the world.

Take the Fair Trade Coffee Pledge

We pledge to make sure that every cup of coffee we serve helps lift up the women and men who helped produce it. By pledging to only purchase Fair Trade coffee, we are ensuring that the people who grow and harvest our coffee are given fair wages and human rights, and we are living up to our Jewish values.

As Jewish communities, we know that treating workers fairly is not a good deed — it is an imperative. As it is written, “You shall not abuse a needy or destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. You must pay his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for his needs and his life depend on it” (Deuteronomy 24:14-15). By buying Fair Trade, we are ensuring that we live up to this mandate.

Read more about the inspiration behind the project in this blog post by Rachel Braun.

Sign the Fair Trade Coffee Pledge:

Recent Pledge Signers

Thygesen-may family
Independence, OR

Ikar
Los Angeles, CA

Congregation Beth Am
Los Altos Hills, CA

Beth Chayim Chadashim
Los Angeles, CA

Mishkan Chicago
Chicago, IL

Congregation Netivot Shalom
Berkeley, CA

Iowa Hillel
Iowa City, IA

Adat Ari El
Valley Village, CA

Congregation Beth Israel
Asheville, NC

Congregation B’nai Israel
Emerson, NJ

Temple Isaiah
Los Angeles, CA

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Fair Trade Judaica's website would never have happened without three extraordinary people:Lisa K. Chanoff, whose generous donation made the project possible,Dean MacDonald who captured our essence with his brilliant logo and artistic influence, andAaron Hodge Silver who took our ideas and built a website we can grow into for a long time to come.